Knowing a wide variety of sight words is SO KEY for primary students when they are learning to read. When your students are able to instantly identify key words without needing to pause and reflect, their brains then have more energy to decode the new words in their text that they...
Starting centres… en maternelle!
Do you use centres in your primary classroom? I LOVE centres! They can be awesome. When you have centres in place that run like a well-oiled machine, you can easily pull small groups of students to work with, while being confident that the rest of your class is engaged and...
French rhyme time
Hi! In getting ready for back to school, I have been compiling all of my guided reading games and activities (getting organized is my big goal for this year!). Last week, I talked about some ways that I practice counting syllables with my students. Another big skill that K and...
How to get your French Primary Students Excited to be their Best
Teaching maternelle is... special ;) Other grades have their challenges, too, I'm sure... but maternelle? It's a whole other ballgame! (For example, you could actually probably play a ball game in another grade, and no one would steal the ball and/or try to stick it up their nose.) <---- yes, this...
La lecture guidée en maternelle – Guided Reading in a French Primary Classroom
Has this ever happened to you? You're sitting at your guided reading table, with a group of sweet students who are gung-ho and eager to learn to read. You spend 10-15 minutes painstakingly teaching them a new strategy to help them read new words on their own (look at the...
Comment faire votre propre cartable de données!
Today I am going to share with you the secret to how I keep all of my student data organized. Now, it should be noted that by nature, I am not the most organized person! I am definitely a Type B teacher, and use sticky notes instead of detailed lesson...